Blunt edge dough cutter
a cutting machine and dough technology, applied in the field of dough cutters, can solve the problems of sharp and squared edges of cut buns, unsatisfactory aesthetically, and undesirable aesthetically
Inactive Publication Date: 2011-07-21
GENERAL MILLS INC
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The patent text describes a dough cutting apparatus that can be used to cut a sheet of dough. The apparatus has a structure that engages the dough in a blunt way. The invention can be implemented in different ways, such as a wheel cutter, a rotary drum cutter, or a reciprocating head cutter. The technical effect of the invention is to provide a more efficient and precise method for cutting dough.
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However, such cuts can render aesthetically unpleasing dough pieces.
For example, rather than resulting in a breadstick or bun which has rounded corners which resemble hand made buns, the cut bun has sharp and squared off edges which can be aesthetically undesirable.
Still other prior techniques do not even attempt to process a dough sheet into such rounded dough pieces.
Such techniques are quite slow.
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[0023]FIG. 1 illustrates a dinner roll 10 cut using a method and cutter in accordance with the prior art. It can be seen that dinner roll 10 has sharp, substantially squared off corners, where it was cut from a sheet, or another piece, of dough.
[0024]By contrast, FIG. 2 illustrates a bun or roll 12 which is cut using a cutter or system in accordance with one aspect of the present invention. It can be seen that roll 12 has rounded edges 14, rather than the squared or sharply cut edges of roll 10 illustrated in FIG. 1.
[0025]In the past, this type of shape has been obtained by placing small balls of dough in rollers which roll the balls of dough into a substantially spherical shape. The dough spheres (or dough balls) are then placed in individual baking pans so that they can be baked, much as a conventional dinner roll is baked by a consumer. However, such techniques are very low throughput techniques. They are, thus, less than desirable for commercial applications in which it is desir...
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Abstract
A dough cutting apparatus is suitable for cutting a sheet of dough. The dough cutting apparatus includes a structure defining a blunt dough engaging portion. The present invention can be embodied in a number of different ways, including a wheel cutter, a rotary drum cutter, a reciprocating head cutter, or another cutter.
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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0001]The present invention deals with a dough cutter. More specifically, the present invention deals with a dough cutter used to make bread products having aesthetically pleasing appearances.[0002]A number of methods have been employed in order to make various types of bread products, such as loaves, buns, rolls, biscuits, and breadsticks, from a sheet of dough. In such systems, a sheet of bread dough may typically be extruded, reduced, and provided to a conveyor which conveys the sheet of dough along a dough travel path. The sheet of dough then encounters one or more cutting apparatus, such as slitter wheels, guillotine-type cutters, reciprocating head cutters, or rotatable drum-type cutters. Such cutters, traditionally, have employed very thin or sharp cutting edges in order to cut the dough. For instance, many such cutting edges are only approximately 1 / 32 of an inch thick. In fact, conventional wisdom dictates that, when cutting dough, without crimpin...
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IPC IPC(8): A21C11/04A21C11/10A21D8/02
CPCA21C11/04A21C3/10A21C11/10Y10T83/04Y10T83/6656Y10T83/05A21C7/06A21C9/085
Inventor EVANS, JAMES R.FINKOWSKI, JAMES W.RESSEL, GENE A.
Owner GENERAL MILLS INC